Arctic sovereignty becomes real when someone else claims it first. You're watching Trump announce a Greenland deal. He says it covers the entire Arctic region, including Canadian territory. Your government ignored Arctic defense for decades, and now a U.S. president just announced plans without asking permission.

Trump says he'll explain the deal in two weeks. That's his standard answer for everything, but here's the thing: the U.S. already had access to whatever it needed in Greenland through existing agreements with Denmark. Breakenridge points out the real issue isn't what Trump wants but that Canada's Arctic vulnerability is decades old, ignored by multiple prime ministers, and now impossible to hide.

The chaos wasn't random. It's Trump's negotiation pattern: create confusion, then claim victory with a deal. What looked like erratic threats was actually pressure to get what the U.S. could have requested diplomatically. Canada's Arctic problem didn't start with Trump. Next time a politician promises Arctic investment, the question becomes: why wasn't this done twenty years ago when the warnings started?

Topics: Arctic sovereignty, Greenland deal, Canada Arctic defense, U.S. border security, Mark Carney

GUEST: Rob Breakenridge | robbreakenridge.ca

Originally aired on 2026-01-22